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The longest Wikipedia article is List of Glagolitic manuscripts, which is 1,325,631 bytes long. The average length of a Wikipedia article is about 658 words. The English Wikipedia has 6,714,921 articles, which contain over 4.3 billion words. Wikipedia is edited over 2 times every second, 547 new articles are added each day.
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Since the longest article changes with reasonable frequency, I usually find it more meaningful simply to link Special:LongPages.
The longest "articles" are frequently not strictly articles but lists, or at least close; the longest article that's not arguably either a list or list-adjacent IMHO would be "Tartan", currently #16.
Holy mother of cruft, there’s a ‘Regulation’ section in that article!
how?
Just skimmed through it, i think someone wrote a whole book about the history of Tartan and just copy/pasted it into wikipedia lol. Very detailed but arguably should be condensed or split up into different articles to be more accessible.
A lot of them are long just because of the amount of citations. Covid 19 on Oregon for example isn't all that long.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Oregon?useskin=vector
It doesn't help that they have a scrolling table with counts and details for every single day of the pandemic.
bruh how on earth did my home end up as the second longest page? its a tiny 'country' too like
It's a list. But the article 'Precambrium' on Dutch Wikipedia , nót a list, counts 700.000 + bytes.
Damn, the 3rd longest article is from a Philippine Singing competition, and is well maintained.
The “size” here seems to be the amount of data.
A chart consists of far more data than just text; so it makes sense that lists would be the “largest” articles.
Somewhat unrelated, but I was baffled once when I stumbled upon a french-language article on the brasilian War of Canudos : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerre_de_Canudos
It's 100.000 words long, waaaay longer than the english or portuguese version (3400 words). A full copy-pasting in Word made a 200 pages document.
I don't even know why or when, I'm just confused by this article
It's probably someone doing his master degree on it who decided to expand it.
I have a friend who is specialized in communal charters in northern France and she wrote most of the articles found on it on Wikipedia after she dug up and studied archives for months.
(I'm a bit late but might as well add my grain of salt)
your article is *only* 755k bytes long
Apparently, this is the longest in French Wikipedia (1729k bytes) : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9giments_d%27infanterie_fran%C3%A7ais_d%27Ancien_R%C3%A9gime
Apparently, it got a bit more than a million characters, 687 pages and 188 thousand words
I've never asked myself that question but as soon as I read it, I absolutely needed to know.
list of school shootings in the US 2000-present is the 205th longest...
Hopefully it doesn't have that "You can help by expanding it.. " header...
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Yeah I was confused by that as well.
It bothers me so much.
I think bytes is more objective, maybe? Number of words can depend on whether or not you count infoboxes and predefinitions
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Ok
The article chronicling the last 5 minutes before Namek exploded.
"Well Kakakrabbypatty, We only have 50 episodes before Namek kasplodes"
John von Neumann has arguably the best article, which also happens to be one of the longest at number 912 (it was at 538 a couple months ago) due to the number of accomplishments and ideas he contributed to society, with very little in the way of commentary or history like some of the longer but more popular and recent articles of people like Tom Brady who is at number 120. (Tom Brady was the first person I found in the list due to most of them being lists or ideas, not people)
We must never take Wikipedia for granted. It's mind-blowing that a bunch of volunteer editors from all over the globe who don't know each other created the world's biggest encyclopedia in less than a decade. Hundreds of new articles are published every day, and thousands more are constantly edited. It's the most ambitious and successful effort to liberate and organize knowledge in an easily accessible way.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
The article 'Precambrium' on Dutch Wikipedia is a non-list article counting as per today 699.329 bytes, and it's being written by just one person.